Windows Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Windows
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 113 145 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 12.05% 7.60% 17.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.47% 63.88% 73.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 86 237
10th Percentile £160 £168 £155
25th Percentile £199 £201 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £295 £300
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% -1.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £450 £479 £538
90th Percentile £560 £575 £631
England median daily rate £420 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 59
10th Percentile - £13.29 £13.26
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £39.32 £14.16 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +177.68% -16.71% +8.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £24.62
90th Percentile £66.95 £66.25 £66.75
England median hourly rate £18.77 £17.72 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.90% -21.24% +12.50%

All Operating Systems
East of England

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 170 227 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.12% 11.89% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 127 333
10th Percentile £178 £175 £160
25th Percentile £208 £238 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £575
90th Percentile £561 £650 £700
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 65
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.72 -
25th Percentile £19.22 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%
75th Percentile £65.38 £64.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £84.75 £66.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +13 40 £500 +42.86% 159
Suffolk +4 30 £210 +5.66% 35
Cambridgeshire -3 22 £404 +68.23% 118
Essex +2 8 £245 +11.74% 122
Norfolk +10 7 £155 - 41
Bedfordshire -8 6 £190 -24.00% 73
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (11.50%) SharePoint
2 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.42%) CMS
4 2 (1.77%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.77%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.88%) Apache
5 1 (0.88%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.88%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.88%) IIS
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.88%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (16.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.66%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (13.27%) Azure
3 13 (11.50%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.19%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.42%) Cohesity
5 5 (4.42%) Google Workspace
6 4 (3.54%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.77%) IaaS
8 1 (0.88%) AWS
8 1 (0.88%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.88%) PaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.88%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.81%) VPN
2 18 (15.93%) DNS
3 15 (13.27%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.96%) LAN
4 9 (7.96%) WAN
5 8 (7.08%) VLAN
6 7 (6.19%) SAN
7 5 (4.42%) Firewall
8 4 (3.54%) DHCP
8 4 (3.54%) Ethernet
8 4 (3.54%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.54%) NAS
8 4 (3.54%) Skype
8 4 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.65%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.65%) SMTP
9 3 (2.65%) SpaceWire
9 3 (2.65%) VoIP
10 2 (1.77%) FTP
10 2 (1.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.77%) DB2
1 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Visual Studio
2 5 (4.42%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.77%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.88%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) MSI
General
1 57 (50.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.19%) Legal
2 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.31%) Finance
3 6 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.54%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.54%) Military
5 4 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Law
6 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.77%) Electronics
7 2 (1.77%) Marketing
8 1 (0.88%) Aviation
8 1 (0.88%) Avionics
8 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (21.24%) Support Engineer
2 16 (14.16%) Analyst
2 16 (14.16%) Desktop Engineer
2 16 (14.16%) Desktop Support
3 15 (13.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) IT Support
5 7 (6.19%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (6.19%) Senior
6 6 (5.31%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (5.31%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Deployment Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) Service Analyst
6 6 (5.31%) Service Desk Analyst
6 6 (5.31%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Administrator
7 5 (4.42%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (3.54%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) LDAP
2 4 (3.54%) Node.js
2 4 (3.54%) Web Services
3 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.88%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.88%) JTAPI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.50%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (10.62%) iPad
2 12 (10.62%) iPhone
3 11 (9.73%) Driving Licence
4 5 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.54%) Clustering
5 4 (3.54%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (3.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (3.54%) Molecular Biology
5 4 (3.54%) Replication
5 4 (3.54%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.77%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.77%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.77%) PKI
7 2 (1.77%) Smartcard
7 2 (1.77%) YubiKey
8 1 (0.88%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.89%) Linux
2 23 (20.35%) Windows Server
3 20 (17.70%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.42%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.42%) Unix
5 4 (3.54%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.54%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.77%) VxWorks
6 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.88%) FreeBSD
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.17%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (22.12%) Customer Service
2 25 (22.12%) ITIL
3 16 (14.16%) Agile
4 13 (11.50%) ITSM
5 10 (8.85%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (8.85%) Problem Management
6 9 (7.96%) Time Management
7 8 (7.08%) CI/CD
7 8 (7.08%) Customer Requirements
7 8 (7.08%) PRINCE2
7 8 (7.08%) Proactive Maintenance
7 8 (7.08%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (7.08%) Validation
8 7 (6.19%) Antivirus Management
8 7 (6.19%) DevOps
8 7 (6.19%) Inventory Management
8 7 (6.19%) Mobile Device Management
8 7 (6.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.16%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.08%) C++
3 5 (4.42%) C#
3 5 (4.42%) Python
4 4 (3.54%) Java
4 4 (3.54%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.54%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.65%) Bash
5 3 (2.65%) C
5 3 (2.65%) SQL
5 3 (2.65%) Tcl
5 3 (2.65%) VBA
6 2 (1.77%) Groovy
7 1 (0.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 43 (38.05%) Security Cleared
2 36 (31.86%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.85%) DBS Check
4 8 (7.08%) Degree
5 7 (6.19%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.77%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.88%) ECDL
9 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) SLA
2 2 (1.77%) QA
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (37.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.19%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.42%) Docker
5 4 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.54%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.77%) vSphere
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (13.27%) SCCM
2 9 (7.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (7.08%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (5.31%) Ansible
5 5 (4.42%) WSUS
6 4 (3.54%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (3.54%) Podman
7 3 (2.65%) AppManager
8 2 (1.77%) Nessus
9 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.88%) SCOM
9 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (51.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.50%) ServiceNow
2 13 (11.50%) VMware
3 10 (8.85%) Apple
4 7 (6.19%) McAfee
4 7 (6.19%) NetApp
4 7 (6.19%) Red Hat
4 7 (6.19%) Samsung
4 7 (6.19%) SOTI
5 6 (5.31%) Google
5 6 (5.31%) Splunk
6 5 (4.42%) MobileIron
6 5 (4.42%) Nexthink
7 4 (3.54%) Darktrace
7 4 (3.54%) FireEye
7 4 (3.54%) HP
7 4 (3.54%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (3.54%) LogRhythm
8 3 (2.65%) Ivanti
8 3 (2.65%) Tenable